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The dandelions remind me of gang tagging

The instant random brain association I had when I saw Laurie's dandelion sculpture was that it looked like a character or letter in gang writing. I found this example. Something about the movement or the gesture of the flowers just triggered this for me.

What if we made gang tags with dandelions? What if people's first reactions to a gang message wasn't negative, but positive, sweet, curious because it was made with flowers? How strange it would be to "tag" with dandelions - or moss, twigs, rocks, etc., Andy Goldsworthy style?

I love the idea. I'm going to go with it.

(By the way, *this* is exactly what I was hoping for in a creativity blog - to ping-ping-ping with ideas because a few heads are better than one.)

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yellows and greens

Dandelions are versatile building elements. Their petals inter mesh nicely with grass, leaves and other dandelions.

I've been wanting to make something like this since Amelia introduced me to Andy Goldsworthy and the dandelions seemed like a good place to start.